Container



Aug. 12 1924; 1,504,725

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NITED STATES M64725 PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD SCHUMACHER, OF LYNNBROOK, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO AUTO STROP 00.,

. OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CONTAINER.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CONRAD SOHUMAOHER, a citizen of. the United States, and resident of Lynnbrook, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to. improvements in boxes or containers of the class having interior compartments adapted to receive separate articles, the particular form of box shown being adapted to receive parts of a safety razor.

The object of my invention is to provide a box or container of the class specified which shall be convenient in use, simple and cheap to manufacture, and not liable to get out of order.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved box;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the box closed; Fig. 3 is a section on line-'3, 3, in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section on the plane of the line 4, 4, in Fig. 5; Fig. 5 is a omitted;

Fig. 6 is a detail cross section on the plane of line 6, 6, in Fig. 5, parts being omitted, and

Fig. 7 is a detail perspective of a corner of the box body.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

The main hollow body of the box or container is indicated generally at 1, shown comprising a bottom 1, a front wall 1 a a rear wall 1, and end walls or sides 1. A suitable cover is indicated at 2 shown pivotally supported upon the end walls 1, by pivots 3 passing through ears 2* on the cover. The cover is shown provided with flange 2 extending around the forward and side edges of the cover, adapted to receive the corresponding edges of the box walls or sides to enclose the same when the cover is closed, as indicated in Fig. 2. The front wall 1 is shown provided with an outwardly extending projection 4, which may be pressed out of the material of the wall providing a recess 4 at the inner surface of said wall. The forward portion of flange 2 is shown provided with a recess 5, which may be formed by pressing outwardly the metal plan view, the cover being gitudinally therein. The parts 6, 6", 6, may

be made from a sheet of metal pressed to shape, though the member 6 can be made from a single piece of metal. The member 6 is spaced from wall l providing a compartment therebetween that is divided transversely by means of a strip 7 interposed between walls 1 and 6*. Strip 7 serves as a transverse partition dividing the main com-- partment into two side compartments a, b. The strip 7 at one end is shown provided with a notch at 8, (Fig. 3), the adjacent end of said strip being adapted to enter a slot 9 in wall 6 whereby the adjacent end of strip 7 is retained from movement at said wall. The opposite end of strip 7 is provided with a projection 7 adapted to enter the recess 4* to retain the strip braced between walls 1 and 6 The end of strip 7 adjacent to projection 7 is shown bent laterally at 7 to bear against wall 1". hen the parts described are to be assembled the member 6 is placed in the box adjacent to wall 1, the reduced end of strip 7 at the notch 8 is entered in slot 9 of wall 6 while the strip is at an angle across the box, substantially as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and the forward end of the strip is swung toward wall 1 so that its projection 7 will engage said wall and the strip will flex sufficiently to enable its projection 7 to spring or snap into the recess 45 of wall 1', whereby the parts 6 and 7 are retained in the box body, the edge 8 at the notch 8 abutting against wall 6 to resist pressure of the strip against said wall.

By preference the box is lined with suitable fabric indicated at 10, such as a strip of velvet, which will extend along bottom 1 and along the outer surface of walls 6 6' and thence over the hinged point and alon the inner surface of cover 2, said materia being pasted to box material by any suitable adhesive. The lining will retain member 6 in the box body. The portion of linwalls 1 ,.1 1, are turned, inwardly provide ing flanges 11 from which lugs 12 extend.

The adjacent portion of end walls or sides 1 are provided with holes 13 through which the corresponding adjacent lugs 12 project,

theinner ends of said lugs being bent or extended laterally in front of the walls 1 to retain the latter. The walls 1: are shown within the flanges :11 and by being secured to said flanges said walls are maintained in firm relation to walls 1*, 1 1. The construction enables making the box body parts with a minimum of metal and at relatively low cost.

My improved box or. container may be used, to receive various separate articles, such as the frame of a. safety razor in compartment a or b, the extra blades in the other such compartment, and the detached handle of the razor in groove 6 of member 6.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A container comprising a hollow body,

one of its walls and said member, said wall having a recess, said strip having a projection received in said recess, the end of the strip adjacent to the wall bearing against the latter to prevent displacement of the strip.

3. A container comprising a hollow body, a member extending lengthwise within the body, and a strip extending across the body between one of its walls and said member,

said wall having a recess, said strip having at one end a projection located in said recess, the adjacent end of the strip having a portion bearing against the wall to prevent displacement of the strip, said strip at its other end having a notch providing a projection, the member having a slot receiving said projection, the metal of the strip at the notch engaging said member to prevent displacement of the strip.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 10th day of December, A. D. 1921.

CONRAD SCHUMACHER. 

